On Saturday 07 May 2005 20:56, John W. Krahn wrote: > Gavin Henry wrote: > > On Sunday 08 May 2005 00:13, amr wrote: > >>How can I call the last element in the array? > >> > >>I try the pop and it does the job but I think there is another way? > > > > Of course, TMTOWTDI (http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/TMTOWTDI.html) > > > > $ARRAY[$#ARRAY--] > > Oh wow. Did you try that? You do realise that modifying $#ARRAY changes > the size of @ARRAY?
Yes, this was my misunderstanding of the OP question. He wants to only find out what is the last element of the array and not modify it, but I gave the equivalent of the pop command, which your proof demonstrates. http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/pop.html > > $ perl -le' > @ARRAY = "A" .. "Z"; > print "Size: " . @ARRAY, " $ARRAY[$#ARRAY]"; > print "Size: " . @ARRAY, " $ARRAY[$#ARRAY--]"; > print "Size: " . @ARRAY, " $ARRAY[$#ARRAY--]"; > print "Size: " . @ARRAY, " $ARRAY[--$#ARRAY]"; > print "Size: " . @ARRAY, " $ARRAY[--$#ARRAY]"; > ' > Size: 26 Z > Size: 26 > Size: 25 > Size: 24 W > Size: 23 V > > > > John > -- > use Perl; > program > fulfillment -- Walking the road to enlightenment... I found a penguin and a camel on the way..... Fancy a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just ask!!! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
